Author: Jordana Frankel

The idea behind this book is interesting, and I think I could have enjoyed it a lot more if it didn't suffer from the weird, stilted romance, and the shaky world building. The Ward is a dystopian novel that takes mixes two staples of mankind's story-telling - the Great Flood myth, and the search for the Fountain of Youth - and turns them into a teenaged girl's adventure. But the book, instead of being clever and exciting, is sluggish and meandering, and there are huge holes and inconsistencies in the world building and premise. A huge flood has caused the...